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===Out of curiosity – stepped Alpha seen working in the (unix shell) wild ?===
===Out of curiosity – stepped Alpha seen working in the (unix shell) wild ?===


There is a reference to stepped alpha expansions in the increment section of the reference to which I linked in the task description (https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/expansion/brace#increment) (referred to without elaboration as an 'interesting feature').
There is a reference to stepped alpha expansions in the <code>increment</code> section of the reference to which I linked in the task description (https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/expansion/brace#increment) (referred to without elaboration as an 'interesting feature').


The only reason that haven't implemented it myself (in the current draft of the JS reference implementation) is that it didn't match what I was seeing (macOS Catalina) either in the default '''zsh''' command line or in a script with the preamble <code>#!/bin/bash</code>, neither of which expand <code>{a..z..3}</code> to anything other than itself.
The only reason that haven't implemented it myself (in the current draft of the JS reference implementation) is that it didn't match what I was seeing (macOS Catalina) either in the default '''zsh''' command line or in a script with the preamble <code>#!/bin/bash</code>, neither of which expand <code>{a..z..3}</code> to anything other than itself.